After my Kodi 19 broke, I went searching for some discussion on the plugins I use. Pretty much every discussion I saw where the dev of the broken plugin acknowledged the transition did so during last summer.

Not sure if it was just coincidence, or if Kodi said, "look, y'all, we're moving forward! Get on it!"

That makes this release a little better. Still doesn't make releasing a known-unmaintained version on a platform more palatable, though.